Never one to shy away from, well, anything, designer Karl Lagerfeld concluded his Chanel Spring 2013 Couture show by sending not one but two brides down the runway in matching wedding gowns. Models Kati Nescher and Ashleigh Good (accompanied by Lagerfeld’s 4-year-old godson, Hudson Kroenig, in a matching ring bearer suit) catwalked hand in hand at the end of Tuesday’s show at the Grand Palais in what was immediately perceived as a marriage equality endorsement. When questioned if his use of a lesbian couple in the traditional bridal finale was a statement about same-sex marriage Lagerfeld (for whom the description “openly gay” does not seem nearly enough) replied, “Of course it was.”

“I do not understand why people who live together cannot have the same security as those bourgeois who are married,” he told Reuters. “Two women getting married, I find that natural, and having two mothers is a good thing.”

Lagerfeld’s statement was a timely one. In addition to the upcoming Supreme Court hearing on the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8 (the 2008 ballot proposition that amended the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage), France’s President Francois Hollande has stated that he plans to legalize same-sex as early as June of this year.